One of LA's best-kept musical songwriting secrets for over a decade -- collaborating with the likes of Jim James, Sondre Lerche, Moby, Sarah and Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek), and Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco) -- Jamie Drake has all the while been carefully honing her own craft and preparing to take center stage. 
 Now, over 2 million people have discovered Drake’s premiere tracks from her album, EVERYTHING'S FINE: a record that embraces heartbreak and hope, with indie-pop stylings wrapped in lush orchestrations. This June 2022, Drake’s love for early 1970s Laurel Canyon folk unexpectedly meets Rio de Janeiro in NEW GIRL, once again displaying her ability to evolve as a dynamic artist in her time by bringing a fresh perspective on Folk and Bossa Nova that is uniquely her own. NEW GIRL's bossa influence came as a welcomed surprise and was inspired by the incomparable Getz / Gilberto “76” album, which Jamie discovered for the first time in 2020 while living in Ojai, California. “I listened to it every day while riding my bike around Meiners Oaks with my dog and a JBL speaker in the basket." By fall 2021 Rich Jacques came to California to produce the album with her and Austin Myles Grant, fellow LA artist / multi-instrumentalist. The trio was invited to record at a private residence set in the Santa Monica mountains over the course of two weeks. This purity and connection with nature can be felt in the recordings.